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This is a list of selected August 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Independence Day in Ecuador (1809) refimprove section, unreferenced section
991 – Inland-raiding Vikings defeated Byrhtnoth and the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Maldon in Essex, England. Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, today the basis of the prime meridian, was laid in Greenwich, London. unreferenced section
1792French Revolution: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the Tuileries Palace, effectively ending the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814. refimprove section
1821 – As per the conditions of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted into the United States as a slave state, despite the fact that most of its territory was north of the parallel 36°30′ north. refimprove section
1846 – The United States Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex. refimprove, expand sections
1904Russo-Japanese War: The first major confrontation between modern steel battleship fleets took place in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. refimprove section
1913 – Delegates of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece signed the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War. one source
1920 – Representatives of Sultan Mehmed VI signed the Treaty of Sèvres, recognizing the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. unreferenced section
2009 - Twenty people were killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history. Stubby

Eligible

  • 1990NASA's Magellan space probe reached Venus on a mission to map its surface, fifteen months after its launch.

August 10: Feast Day of Saint Lawrence (Roman Catholic Church)

The Louvre palace (Richelieu wing)

  • 1793The Louvre (pictured) officially opened in Paris with an exhibition of 537 paintings.
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